The University of Queensland will host a free public lecture on Monday, May 23 discussing an aeroplane at the cutting edge of 21st century aerospace.
The lecture entitled: Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Future of Commercial Aviation Today, will be held in room 204 of the Mansergh Shaw Building (Building 45), St Lucia at 6pm.
It will be given by Michael Drake, a full Technical Fellow of Aircraft Configuration Design for The Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington.
The Boeing 787 is a breakthrough development in commercial aviation. In flight test today, its initial deliveries are planned for later this year.
This talk will introduce this vehicle.
Some perspective of the journey of its evolution will be covered.
This will be followed by an overview of the key airplane elements and features, including touching on its advanced technologies such as composite primary airframe design (a first for large commercial transports), and paradigm-shifting advanced more electric airplane systems.
The guest speaker Michael Drake is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. He has worked for Boeing Commercial Airplanes since 1984.
Hired directly in as a Configuration Design engineer (a role akin to airplane architect), his range of experience has been about every aspect of Transport category configuration design: ranging from derivative development (757 Package Freighter, 757-300) to joint international aircraft development activities of small (100 seat) and large (600 seat) new aircraft.
The lecture has been organized by the Adelaide section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, in conjunction with UQ’s School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering.
An AIAA member since college, Michael Drake is an AIAA Associate Fellow. He is the current Chairman of AIAA’s Technical Committee on Aircraft Design.
For further information, contact mark.bateup@dsto.defence.gov.au or russell.boyce@uq.edu.au
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